63g. Carolinian Barrier Islands and Coastal Marshes
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552
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Barrier islands, dunes, beaches, lagoons, estuaries, tidal marshes.
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0-30, some dunes to
100
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5-30
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Holocene beach and dune sand, saline marsh deposits of sand, silt, clay, and peat.
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Entisols (Sulfaquents, Psammaquents, Hydraquents, Quartzipsamments)
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Bohicket, Carteret, Hobucken in tidal marshes; Corolla, Newhan, Duckston, Fripp on beach dunes and flats.
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Thermic / Aquic
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50-56
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240-260
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35/53
72/86
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Salt and brackish marshes (cordgrass, saltgrass, rushes); maritime shrub (wax myrtle, yaupon); maritime dry grassland (saltmeadow cordgrass); maritime evergreen forest (live oak, sand laurel oak, loblolly pine); dune grass (sea oats, bitter panic grass, cordgrass, beach grass).
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